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Accommodations will be built into regular tests
4/7 writing and 3-8 reading schematic have tentatively been approved
Possibly use different fonts on EOC and modified assessments
This summer will know how many items per objective – blueprints also to be approved by this summer
The number of items for STAAR similar to
TAKS for grades 3-8
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Schematic for ELA EOC approved – handout
Current 7 th graders will be first to take EOC in
2011-2012 school year
◦ English I-III
◦ Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II
◦ Biology, Chemistry, Physics
◦ World Geography, World History, U.S. History
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Advisory Committees stressed preparedness for next year and beyond
Reading not just as subject but reading on grade level across content areas
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GRADE
9 th
10 th
11 th
12th
2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
EOC EOC EOC EOC
TAKS
TAKS
TAKS
EOC
TAKS
TAKS
EOC
EOC
TAKS
EOC
EOC
EOC
In 2010-2011 (spring 2011) 9 th grade students will take TAKS, option to take
ELA EOC.
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Focus on new assessment is fewer, cleaner/deeper
New assessments are linked to CCRS
New assessments will have a “core” of TEKS
◦ Core TEKS defined as those TEKS considered critical for success in current grade or course and important for preparedness in grade or course that follows
Will focus on these “core” TEKS each year, with other TEKS rotating into assessments across years/administrations
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33-35% of curriculum in reading is considered “core.”
Rotation items will be assessed, but will rotate in and out. These items are not critical to preparedness.
Students will not be able to pass the assessment if teachers only focus on “core”
TEKS.
When completing assessments, TEA worked backward with ELA EOC III and went down to grade 3. Even 3 rd grade supports CCRS.
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3 Reading Objectives:
◦ Vocabulary and Cross-Multiple with genres
 Grades 3-4 details and main ideas in this objective, but no details in upper grades
◦ Literacy Genre
◦ Expository – all informational and persuasive genres
Writing Objectives:
◦ Composition
◦ Revision
◦ Editing
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Some TEKS will not be tested (research)
Persuasive Reading – not in 3 rd or 4 th – possibly in 5 th and 6 th (rotational)
EOC - 50% reading/writing
◦ 25% revision/editing
◦ 25% composition
◦ 50% reading
Composite made up of reading/writing
Writing prompts – literary and expository
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Informational booklets – online by August 1 st in 2011:
◦ Grades 3-8 and EOC
◦ 4/7 Writing
◦ Social Studies 8, 10 and EOC
Will re-conceptualize information every year.
Will be refined as go through assessment process.
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Embedded field test – no separate standalone field tests
Advanced High School course readiness measure for ELA I & II
CCRS Measure for ELA III
No gate keeper – students don’t have to make a 2 to pass test
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Two-composition design:
◦ 1 page essays
◦ Different types of prompts used
 Personal Narrative
 1 st person – personal narrative with extension
 Literary
 Expository
 Persuasive and analytic
◦ Revision and editing will be assessed separately
◦ Field test embedded for grades 7 and EOC
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Assessments for 4/7 writing administered over 2 days
Grade 4 – writing personal experience
Grade 7 – writing about important experience and explain why this experience is important or consequences of actions – building extension
EOC – ELA III analytic composition will have reading attached (i.e. Op Ed)
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Writing conferencing situation in stem:
◦ 4 items per piece in 4 th
◦ 5 items per piece in 7 th and EOC
Examples for revision:
◦ “Andrea wants to strengthen controlling idea. What sentence can she add to introduction to do this.”
◦ “John wants to use more specific word in sentence
20 to make clearer. What word use to replace ___”
Students need to know purpose of editing and revision – not just in isolation
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Plan is to embed field test in 7 th writing and EOC.
Separate field test every 3 years (over 2 days)
4 th grade – field test will not write 3 essays
7 th grade – not approved during April
Rubrics
◦ May have 2 rubrics – 1 for each type of composition literary, persuasive or analytic
Also re-writing open-ended rubric
◦ Students will not have to support everything they say about text. Do bring overall text evidence for overall validity.
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Genres Assessed:
◦ Literary strand – fiction, literary, non-fiction, poetry and drama (drama begins in 4 th )
◦ Informational strand – expository and persuasive
(persuasive begins in 5 th )
◦ Procedural elements embedded in information pieces and media literacy
◦ Grades 3-8 developing published pieces – poetry, drama, expository from children’s literature and magazine
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Literary non-fiction includes biographies and auto-biography at grades 3-5 (no memoirs)
Poetry in grade 3 through EOC
Drama – readers’ theatre in grades 4 and 5
Single pieces and pairs included every year – pairs beginning in 4 th grade
◦ Pairs will include any combination of genres eligible for particular grade
◦ Pairs will have deep thematic link
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Pieces on assessment will be different lengths
Text based on overall word maximum rather than on maximum per piece.
Different number of questions attached to different length of pieces
4-5 pieces per assessment dependent on length of each piece
Figure 19 important to assessments
◦ Summary, main idea and details Student
Expectations in expository grades 3-EOC III
◦ Plot summary also in Figure 19
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Sensory language – not attached to any strand or genre in TEKS
Sensory language in persuasive reading, drama and poetry
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